Question about bce driver

[Paul Schmehl]

I'm running 6.1 RELEASE (i386) and I've been replacing the if_bce.c file 
with a slightly newer one that at least got the driver working without hard 
lockups that required a reboot to fix.  (Rather problematic on a remotely 
located web server.)

If I download the latest driver from cvs (1.33), should I also replace the 
if_bcefw.h and if_bcereg.h files with the newer versions?  Will the NIC 
work without creating new problems?  Right now I get an occasional 
"flapping" of the NIC link state (down, up , down, up, etc.) but it at 
least works most of the time.  I don't want to buildworld and get suprised 
by a non-functioning NIC.  :-)

If I use the newer versions, will I also need to use some other newer files 
that are called by them?  Or would it be better to upgrade the entire box 
to 6.2?

FreeBSD www.stovebolt.com 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #2:

grep bce /var/run/dmesg.boot
bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem 
0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9
bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0
bce0: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ad
bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem 
0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci5
bce1: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
miibus1: <MII bus> on bce1
bce1: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ab

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Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/